Control

Name: Control
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: April 1, 2005
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Eszter Balla, Sándor Csányi

2005

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Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critics

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KONTROLL

Movie Details & Credits

thinkfilm | Release Date: April 1, 2005

Starring: Eszter Balla, Sándor Csányi

Summary: The massive labyrinthine netherworld that is the Budapest subway system, provides the stunning setting for Kontroll, a high-style, high-speed romantic thriller in which the lives of assorted outcasts, lovers and dreamers intersect and collide. (ThinkFilm)

Director: Nimród Antal

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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97	#97 Best Movie of 2005

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Christian Science Monitor - David Sterritt

If it weren't so smartly filmed and acted, this might add up to an over-the-top mess. But watch how inventively Mr. Antal keeps the action moving and you'll see why his picture has won a passel of prizes. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas

Kontroll is in fact an allegory, but one that oozes a gritty, dynamic realism. Read full review

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

Antal's visuals create a haunted house where the lights are off in most of the rooms and there may, indeed, be a monster in the closet. Read full review

Washington Post - Michael O'Sullivan

Visually stylish surrealist drama. Read full review

The Hollywood Reporter - Ray Bennett

Grungy and uneven, but it has a rollicking pace and clearly intends to be good fun so that audiences may overlook its unsteady rhythms, pretensions and inconsistencies and take it for the fast and very furious ride it wants to be. Read full review

New York Daily News - Elizabeth Weitzman

Smart, imaginative - and nearly impossible to watch. Read full review

Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman

Antal has assembled what may be the single most colorless group of mangy lowlifes I have ever seen. Read full review

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Jaybee

Aug 18, 2006

[***SPOILERS***] This movie was great! I'm with Richard L. Was it his dark side pusing people off the platform? Did he really make it upon the platform at the end of the movie and see the bear girl. No one else seemed to notice her, maybe she was an angel and that's why he was [***SPOILERS***] This movie was great! I'm with Richard L. Was it his dark side pusing people off the platform? Did he really make it upon the platform at the end of the movie and see the bear girl. No one else seemed to notice her, maybe she was an angel and that's why he was finally able to go up to the outside.… Expand

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